June 18, 2013
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Single statewide rabbit season eyed for 2013-14 ... but how long?
With Kentucky’s later-running western zone rabbit hunting season recently ended, the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources is pondering whether the next bunny season should be set as o...
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Photo contributed A mated pair of eagles may use the same nest for many years, adding to the nest annually as it grows to major proportions.
Nesting eagles
Winter grinding down brings a reverse migration that sends touristy bald eagles back to northern habitats. Having lots of eagles hereabouts during winter is significant in itself, the species ha...
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A buck, perhaps a pretty good one, gave this cluster of saplings a hard time in making a multi-faceted rub.
Snooping through deer woods
Some of the most productive deer hunting is right now. Well, no, you can’t molest whitetails nowadays with 2012-13 seasons long closed and those for 2013-14 still months away. But this is an ideal ...
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Fisheries managers plan a netting tournament to cut into the Asian carp population growing in Kentucky and Barkley lakes.
Commercial fishing tourney targets lakes’ Asian carp
Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley will be the scene of a Carp Madness Tournament March 12-13, a competition for commercial fishermen to net a massive haul of invasive Asian carp in pursuit of major ca...
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A ring-billed gull is at home bobbing on one of the big lakes or strolling around some parking lot.
Ring-bills are more fast-food gulls than seagulls
Ever wondered what all these seagulls are doing here so far from the sea? Many gulls are interior birds and never set eyes on salt water. Indeed, the term seagull is a misnomer. More properly, i...
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Squirrels typically are found now where acorns were most plentiful in early fall.
Long squirrel season winds down with last days of February
Small-game hunting pretty much comes down to squirrels nowadays, Kentucky’s season for bushytails running through the last of February. Rabbit and quail hunting in western Kentucky counties clos...
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In Hillman Ferry Campground, like other LBL family campgrounds, the basic camping fee is unchanged, but fees for sites with amenities are increased for the new year.
Budget-lean LBL raises fees, backs down on some campgrounds
Walking a line between budget cuts and a recreation-hungry public, the Land Between the Lakes is raising some fees for 2013, pulling the plug on a couple of lesser used camping areas and downgradin...
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A skunk goes looking for love in February, not trouble, but skunk spray often occurs when he finds trouble nonetheless.
Scent bombs on the move
Count yourself lucky if you’ve not been forced to notice, but this is the season for striped skunks to go courting – and stink up the countryside. We smell them more than we see them, but our co...
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Any groundhog that's out and about today, regardless of whether it sees its shadow, probably in going back underground to re-enter hibernation.
Shadow or not, groundhogs typically ease into season changes
Regardless of what some official rodent says about the tenure of winter today, Groundhog Day, mild and cold weather are going to mix in fits and starts until spring really arrives. This is the d...
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An adult bighead carp, like this one netted on Lake Barkley, wouldn't be misidentified as a shad, but a tiny juvenile might. A Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources survey uses this photo of young Asian carp and shad to convey how they might be confused. Can you tell which is which?
The old bait and switch
Most of us don’t know much about cows except that they serve as a principal source of cheeseburgers, and, yes, we should step around their ground level deposits. But let’s say you have a fenced ...
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